Pasadena Village is a member of the national association of Villages, Village to Village Network. The theme for this year's national conference is Empowering the Future - Celebrating 25 Years of the Village Movement.

You can register and receive your own Zoom link, or you can come and watch the presentations at the Village Office with fellow Villagers and staff. Registration to view remotely on your own device is $50. There is no fee to view the conference at the Village Office.
 
We will serve lunch - please reserve your space if you plan to join us for lunch.

Wednesday, September 30 Schedule

8:00 AM Keynote
Panel of Pundits - with Bob Blancato

8:15 AM Keynote
Measuring Your Mission = The importance of data gathering, management, and leveraging as a key component of their impact.

9:15 AM Breakouts Sessions (Choose 1)

1. C Village Advocacy: Making the Case with Policymakers
Using a case study of how Virginia Villages Collective has advocated for the recognition of Villages as valued assets in the community and to obtain state funding, this presentation will focus on the benefits of advocacy (and how it differs from lobbying) and practical guidance for how to engage elected officials and partner organizations in promoting your Village.

2. C Let’s Get Growing: Lessons Learned from Rebranding a ‘Village’ Organization
Discover how one Village organization successfully rebranded while staying true to its mission of supporting aging in community. Learn practical tips for updating your look, messaging, and outreach without losing trust. This session offers real-life lessons, visual examples, and space for thoughtful questions—no marketing degree required!

3. C How to Create a Village Shared Interest Group on Aging, Death and Dying
This interactive and participatory session will encourage villages to hold more conversations and discussions about end-of-life issues and create programs that village participants and members feel directly benefit them. It will cover advance directives, death cleaning, ethical wills, writing memoirs, avoiding overmedicalization, hospice care, voluntary stopping eating and drinking, medical-aid-dying, death doulas, green burials, and funeral planning.

4. C Helpful Village
This session introduces Helpful Village, an innovative, easy-to-use Village Management Platform designed specifically for the needs of Villages (all our customers are Villages!). We will showcase how some of the most efficient established Villages in the country operate using this platform. You’ll see how modern, secure, and purpose-built technology can help reduce operating costs, streamline daily operations, and increase your Village’s impact on the community. We are proud to share that Helpful Village has been selected to present at an International Social Innovation Contest in Madrid in May 2025, a recognition of its growing global relevance.

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM Breakouts Sessions (Choose 1)

1. D Is A Group Respite Program For You?
This presentation provides a description of the Nelson Enrichment Club, a non-medical, social model group respite program of Here to Stay Wintergreen, a member of the Village to Village Network, available to members and the general public. Details regarding program planning, implementation, and impact will be shared with attendees.

2. D Village Movement 
This presentation will offer an update on the work of Village Movement California (VMC), launched in 2018 to accelerate growth, strengthen impact and ensure sustainability of its member villages. Current initiatives include the Village Incubator, Village Accelerator and an innovative collaboration with West Health Institute.

3. D Community-based Technologies to Support Aging
 With innovative housing, technology, and reimbursements, links may be built between community-managed and professional healthcare. Family Care Homes and nurse-run Wellness Hubs support personal care and self-care with self-payment, and home care nurses provide care coordination, transitional care, and dementia care with new Medicare reimbursement rules.

4. D Goodwin Living Stronger Memory Program
Description TBA

11:30 AM General Session
ReFraming Aging
Description TBA

12:45 PM Break
Lunch served at the Office

1:00 PM General Session
Building a Data Foundation to Strengthen Villages and Prove their Value
This session will highlight key efforts to strengthen Villages’ data collection and reporting capacity, both to benefit their own operations and to demonstrate their value to their communities and funders. The Washington Area Villages Exchange (WAVE), the Village to Village Network (VtVN), Rutgers Hub for Aging Collaboration.